PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED PROGRAMMES
Sir,-Your reply to "Yasdnil" re more complete programmes is a real classic in evasion. You state "that the number of people who buy any journal for one feature alone is never enough to keep it alive; and the number of people who buy The Listener for programmes alone may be one in ten, we do not know." Well, I know, and I should like you to know, that everyone down here, for instance, buys The Listener for the progtammes alone. The rest is mere shaving paper. You seem to have lost sight of the fact that The Listener was primarily a weekly containing a comprehensive survey of the programmes, whereas now it seems that this is of secondary consideration. Look at this issue: 14 pages of film and book reviews and various junk, and five pages — of radio programmes. You cannot put forward the argument that there is a shortage of paper, as The Listener now is bigger than ever.
L. A.
DOYLE
(Jackson’s Bay).
(Our correspondent congratulates us on our powers of evasion. We are sorry we can’t congtatulate him on his powers of calculation. He complains that we have only "five pages of radio programmes."" We have never had fewer than 14 pages of programmes and have often had 21 pages. As for being "bigger than ever," if "ever" means any recent date, we are eight columns smaller than ever (40 pages of three columns each in place of 32 pages of four columns). If it means what it usually means, the truth is that we have 120 columns in place of from 192 to 224 columns.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 243, 18 February 1944, Page 5
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273PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED PROGRAMMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 243, 18 February 1944, Page 5
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